church

broken christians.

We put on a facade of perfection... "Come to Jesus and you will be perfect and no longer have any problems or struggles." This is why people avoid the church... because they don't belong in perfect-people church. We would rather maintain our image of perfection than, in humility and honesty, meet the lost and the broken where they are.

Jesus was a man.

Cross
Casual acceptance, faith, and trust in the Jesus of the Bible is an impossibility. Jesus didn't come begging for you to ask Him into your heart. He came offering His righteousness in exchange for every ounce of your being.

1 Timothy 1:1-7

Paul begins this letter to Timothy by urging Timothy to stay in Ephesus. Paul finds the false doctrines being taught by men in the church to be so damaging that he has urged Timothy to stay in Ephesus more than…